The "blogspot" that exposed Foley has been traced to Portland, OR

[kentuck]

(For those that might still be interested.. :) )

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2006/10/stopsexpredators-going-legit.php

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The mystery of who's behind StopSexPredators.blogspot.com deepens. On Wednesday evening, someone calling himself Andrew Seldon registered the URL "StopSexPredators.com," listing an address in Portland, Oregon. Was this our famed anony-blogger (who appears to have rejoined the party, minus the exclamation points!!!!), laying the groundwork for a public unveiling? Or just some cyber-squatter, snatching up a suddenly-hot web address?

A little investigating only raised more questions. A public records search turned up no evidence of an Andrew Seldon in Oregon, and a Radar operative who visited the address listed in the registry found no house or office, just "a tiny shotgun shack, no bigger than an outhouse, with no power line running to it" in a rural neighborhood of "rusting pickups, snarling dogs, moss-covered mailboxes, and ramshackle stables." Neighbors questioned said they had never heard of an Andrew Seldon.

Though an email address was also listed on the registry, a message sent to it produced no reponse, and by Thursday morning the name on the listing had been shortened to Andrew S.

[NJCher]

1. uh...

(For those that might still be interested.. :) )

I think I'll still be interested until about 2020. :evilgrin:




Cher

[Cooley Hurd]

2. And that shack is owned by (wait for it)...

GEORGE SOROS!

:rofl:

[ClintonTyree]

3. Interesting.....

I'm very curious about who the mystery blogger is. Someone will find out eventually, I'm sure. You can't stay hidden forever, even in the anonymity of cyber-space. Just ask Mark Foley, he'll tell you.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. It could be anyone from Dan Rather to Osama!

It ain't like the GOP hasn't pissed off half the planet! Maybe it's a pissed off page?

Elections are just so damned POLITICAL!

[Dora]

4. I'm interested.

I thought this (from the same site) was interesting too.

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2006/10/the-bogus-blog-behind-foleys-fall.php

The Bogus Blog Behind Foley's Fall

ABCNews.com brought Mark Foley's boy-chasing to national attention, but it wasn't the first website to flog the story. That dubious honor belongs to StopSexPredators, a pseudo-vigilante blog filled with plagiarized, hastily-assembled posts, which no one seems to have heard of, visited, or linked to before last week—and whose operator has a suspiciously savvy grasp of the news cycle.
In other words, a blog whose sole raison d'etre seems to have been to get the Foley ball rolling.

If its time/date stamps are to be trusted (like most free blogware, Blogger allows its users to backdate posts), the pervert-outing anony-site was set up on July 28 as a "clearing house for the public to report sex predators and as a resource for concerned citizens."

One early post, headlined The Sickening Six, naming and shaming the "kinds of sick people who hunt minors for their own sick purposes," is basically an amalgam of plagiarized entries from Crimelibrary, Wikipedia, and Answers.com. (Click here, here, and here, for examples.)

After running just six posts over the summer, the site picked up steam on September 21 when its author wrote, "the blog has been noticed and some shocking emails have been received!!!!" and posted four emails purportedly from "interns" outraged by the heretofore unmentioned Foley and his penchant for teenage boys.

(Of course, if these emails are legit, it means the "interns" somehow stumbled upon the blog, despite the fact that it had not yet been linked to by any other sites, and was virtually indetectible to Google, which ranks sites according to the number of incoming links.)

[uppityperson]

5. I am confused, is it now this?

The first stopsexpedators blog was fake (not truthful stuff about foley), but there were real stories that have now come forward?